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rebound

/ˈɹi.baʊnd/noun, verb

rebound is spelled R-E-B-O-U-N-D: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rebound means “The recoil of an object bouncing off another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rebound is rebounds.

How many letters and syllables are in rebound?

Letters7: R-E-B-O-U-N-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.4 times per million words; the 14,307th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is rebound?

Rebound appears 3.4 times per million words in written English, the 14,307th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce rebound?

  • UK /ɹiˈbaʊnd/
  • US /ˈɹi.baʊnd/

As a verb (“To bound or spring back from a force”): /ɹiˈbaʊnd/, /ɹiˈbaʊnd/.

As a verb: /ˈɹiː.baʊnd/.

Rebound has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-rebound.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with rebound?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as rebound (/ibaʊnd/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: bounder.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of rebound

  • rebounds plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • rebounding participle, present
  • rebounded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does rebound mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The recoil of an object bouncing off another.

  2. 2

    A return to health or well-being; a recovery.

    I am on the rebound.

  3. 3

    An effort to recover from a setback.

  4. 4

    colloquialThe period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship.

  5. 5

    colloquialA romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship.

  6. 6

    The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost.

  7. 7

    An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.

verb

  1. 1

    To bound or spring back from a force.

  2. 2

    To give back an echo.

  3. 3

    To jump up or get back up again.

  4. 4

    To send back; to reverberate.

  5. 5

    To catch the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without scoring a basket for the other team.

  6. 6

    simple past and past participle of rebind (a form of rebind)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate rebound?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of rebound: rbd.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Rebound in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrebond (recoil of an object bouncing off another), guérison (return to health), rétablissement (effort to recover from a setback), rebondir (to bound or spring back from a force)
GermanRückprall (recoil of an object bouncing off another), Rebound (return to health), zurückprallen (to bound or spring back from a force)
Portugueserebote, rebatida (recoil of an object bouncing off another), rebater (to bound or spring back from a force), tapa-buraco (romantic partner, for the sake of recovery)
Spanishrebote (recoil of an object bouncing off another), recuperación, restablecimiento, reestablecimiento (return to health), rebotar, repercutir (to bound or spring back from a force)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does rebound come from?

From Old French rebondir.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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